Because it’s a slow news day, speculation has turned to why Charlie Sheen has been losing weight and whether it’s a healthy reason or something else.

There is nothing more speculative than those on the internet. In recent pictures, Sheen has been seen being much thinner than we are used to him being and of course, that has touched of a flurry of concerned fans and obsessive watchers. It’s like that picture of Keanu Reeves, looking seemingly sad on a park bench, that turned into nothing. But even journalists with the NY Times have been joining in on wondering if there isn’t something more to it when he was seen coming out of Serafina’s, a high class restaurant in New York. They even took note of what he ate, which was pizza and beer, which doesn’t sound like a guy starving himself.

I guess it’s the new found leaf that is bothering people. It’s been said that he’s not too friendly to some, but was very friendly the other night. But he has survived a life changing event. Losing such a huge job and dealing with his family over his issues is a huge thing and maybe he’s learned to be more humble. It doesn’t have to be sinister such as a deep illness. It could be a matter of seeing that if he didn’t change his ways, he wouldn’t be around as an actor or a person. And perhaps he’s found some happiness in his life with his reconciliation with the mothers of his children and his dad.

As to the weight, who knows? It could be anything from withdrawal from the excess he was creating in his life or the simple fact that he wants to be thinner when he gets in front of the cameras again. There has been rumor that he wants to do another Major League movie and thus that would probably require some degree of fitness. Only he (and maybe his doctor) know for sure and they aren’t telling, so what is the point of speculating and being wrong?

Course, I guess people weren’t speculating, I wouldn’t be writing this article.